Guide to the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative Audio Tapes, 1966-1967.

Thirty-three 1/4-inch open-reel audio tapes recording meetings of various directors and committee members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative, especially the founders, Gerald Schaflander and Henry Etzkowitz. Issues discussed include disagreements, employment and firings, stealing, finances, violence and gang fights, drugs, students, the FBI, and black and white division of labor. Notes on some of the boxes include names of persons involved, events, quotes, and content.

Thirty-three 1/4-inch open-reel audio tapes recording meetings of various directors and committee members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative, especially the founders, Gerald Schaflander and Henry Etzkowitz. Issues discussed include disagreements, employment and firings, stealing, finances, violence and gang fights, drugs, students, the FBI, and black and white division of labor. Notes on some of the boxes include names of persons involved, events, quotes, and content.

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The Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Cooperative was a racially-integrated organization founded by sociologists Gerald Schaflander and Henry Etzkowitz in 1966, as a way to connect the diverse residents of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood to goods and services, including food, medicine, and childcare, while investing profits back into the community.